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- U.S. colleges and universities [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ivy League [r]: A group of prestigious, long-established American universities. [e]
- New York (state) [r]: A state of the northeast United States. [e]
- New York City [r]: The largest city in the United States of America and a world center of finance, commerce, communications, and the arts. [e]
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